How to Use accumulative in a Sentence

accumulative

adjective
  • The accumulative effect of his injuries forced him to retire.
  • The accumulative stress in that area.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Therein lies the trick of this novel, its slow magic wrought through small, accumulative moments.
    — Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times, 4 June 2023
  • Using an accumulative point system, the card can shave several dollars off your final bill!
    — Jakob Polaco, kansascity, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The five heaviest bass each day count toward the anglers' accumulative total.
    — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 24 Oct. 2020
  • But what goes up comes down, and 9% was wiped off the board’s accumulative market cap on Tuesday as investors retreated.
    — Fortune, 27 July 2019
  • The accumulative feeling as people glance at their books piling up on the shelves, however, can have questionable adverse side effects.
    — Leonard Hoffman, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2018
  • The choice of Miami Beach as the festival’s long-term home is less accidental than accumulative.
    — Desjah Altvater, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • For a book so interested in synthesis, itemizations of this sort abound, many of them traceable to Whitman’s own rolling, accumulative lines.
    — The New Yorker, 7 June 2020
  • The effect is accumulative and devastating, and the memoir’s many pieces add up to an inventive reckoning with cultural silence.
    — The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Szalay is an accumulative writer.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Rita Hills in Santa Barbara, that has the coolest accumulative weather according to Greg.
    — Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
  • In comparison to the more accumulative installations on this list, Dan Webb’s exhibition may seem spare.
    — Gayle Clemans, The Seattle Times, 28 June 2017
  • Although the four latest injuries aren’t considered significant, the accumulative impact could be taxing.
    — Jeff Miller, latimes.com, 16 June 2018
  • Overall, the accumulative impact of cost pressures represents a 20% to 25% increase over the agency’s current long-range financial plan.
    — Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 30 Aug. 2025
  • This knowledge platform contains the accumulative learnings from past AI initiatives and a clear vision for use of AI in your business strategy.
    — Mark Minevich, Forbes, 19 June 2021
  • Here in Alaska, our communities are facing health impacts from some of the worst air pollution in the nation and persistent bio-accumulative toxic chemicals that concentrate in our food web.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Rather than aiming for novel breakthroughs, Chinese companies excel at incremental improvements – and this results in an accumulative transforming effect.
    — Yu Zhou, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Jakarta, Indonesia’s current capital, is sinking under accumulative pressures.
    — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2021
  • According to a new paper, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, accumulative stresses in the Earth’s crust in California are higher today than at any point over the last 1,000 years, raising concerns over the potential for a massive rupture in the Los Angeles region.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 10 June 2026

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